Word: racing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...harness race with Girl Friend Birgit Lundgren, he decided to back a long shot, was shortly rewarded with...
...auto race, officials bowed when he wanted to take Birgit for a spin in a Ferrari, blanched when he busted into a turn at 100 m.p.h., somehow skidded safely through...
...Name Endorsement. Warren's dislike for "a fellow named Nixon" began with Nixon's first race for Congress in Southern California in 1946. It picked up steam after Nixon's election, because Warren, in his campaign for Governor, was virtually nonpartisan, while Nixon was enthusiastically partisan and attracted the support of Southern California Republicans who wanted to build a permanent party organization...
When Nixon made his celebrated race for the Senate in 1950 against Democrat Helen Gahagan Douglas, Governor Warren withheld endorsement until the Nixon forces goaded Mrs. Douglas into endorsing Warren's Democratic rival for Governor, Jimmy Roosevelt. Warren then endorsed Nixon in this wondrous, no-name way: "In view of ... Mrs. Douglas' . . . statement, I might ask her how she expects I will vote when I mark my ballot for U.S. Senator next Tuesday...
...heavyweight varsity swamped the Thames Rowing Club, and the lightweights beat London University, to bring off the first sweep of both major events by a U.S. challenger in the history of the 120-year-old Henley Royal Regatta. ¶ The Boston Red Sox were last in the American League race, and to Owner Tom Yawkey the next move was obvious. Out went Manager Mike ("Pinky") Higgins, 50. In came Billy Jurges, 51, the old National League shortstop (Chicago, New York), who declared an equally obvious formula for pulling up his Sox: "Ted Williams and a little extra hustle...